Huang, Wei-Chang http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9733-5899
Lin, Chih-Bin
Chien, Shun-Tien
Wang, Jann-Yuan
Lin, Chou-Jui
Feng, Jia-Yih
Lee, Chih-Hsin
Shu, Chin-Chung
Yu, Ming-Chih
Lee, Jen-Jyh
Chiang, Chen-Yuan
Funding for this research was provided by:
Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (MOST 108-2314-B-038-122)
Article History
Received: 24 December 2021
Accepted: 14 February 2022
First Online: 7 March 2022
Declarations
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: This work was supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (MOST 108-2314-B-038-122). The Rapid Service Fee was funded by the Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan.
: All named authors meet the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) criteria for authorship for this article, take responsibility for the integrity of the work as a whole, and have given their approval for this version to be published.
: Chen-Yuan Chiang designed the study. All authors performed the study and collected, analyzed and interpreted the data. Wei-Chang Huang, Chih-Bin Lin and Shun-Tien Chien wrote the paper. Chen-Yuan Chiang supervised the study. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
: Wei-Chang Huang, Chih-Bin Lin, Shun-Tien Chien, Jann-Yuan Wang, Chou-Jui Lin, Jia-Yih Feng, Chih-Hsin Lee, Chin-Chung Shu, Ming-Chih Yu, Jen-Jyh Lee and Chen-Yuan Chiang all have nothing to disclose.
: The study was approved by the Institutional Review Boards and Ethics Committees of the participating hospitals, including National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare Taoyuan General Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare Chest Hospital and Hualien Tzu Chi Hospital (N201903076, 2019-11-007BC, N201903076, IRB108-269-B, IRB_201702013RIND, CE18193A) and implemented in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. The need for informed consent was waived because the study was based on a retrospective electronic medical chart review.
: The datasets generated during and/or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.